ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN RUSSIA: DYNAMICS OF THE INTENSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION

Abstract

Environmental governance is one of the practices of the regional authorities' activities to influence various categories of nature users in order to change their behavior. Various methods are used to quantify the process of environmental governance, among which is the assessment of the intensity of environmental regulation, focused on identifying the degree of activity and effectiveness of measures taken by the state to prevent damage to the environment. In this paper, we will attempt to adapt this indicator to the analysis of the environmental activities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Furthermore, we will try to demonstrate that the change in its value is influenced by the degree of development of regional environmental legislation, the effectiveness of the implementation of regional state programs and environmental cooperation between neighboring regions. It is proposed to analyze the intensity of environmental regulation in the Russian context as an assessment of the effectiveness of direct measures of regional authorities to prevent and eliminate environmental pollution.